This book is pretty different from what I usually read and enjoy. The story, style and protagonist are very much of its time and none of them are what I usually gravitate towards, but the compelling writing, the subtle humor and especially the strong relationship between Dan and his cat Pete made me like this a lot. It´s less about time travel than it is about ingenuity: a good part is about the protagonist´s company and inventions and about him trying to get his way. Time travel just happens at the end, but we still get to see a good deal of two imagined futures, now both in our past. Dan is an interesting character, he probably appealed to the everyday man of the time and still to some men today, but I wonder how intentional some of his flaws are. He obviously has a messed-up relationship to the women in his life, as proven again by the ending and he can be pretty annoying and oblivious to some things around him, but part of me still reads him as essentially the unquestioned good guy. For me, the book was fascinating in many ways, even if the focus of the story was not where I thought it would be.